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Definition of Polynia
1. n. The open sea supposed to surround the north pole.
Definition of Polynia
1. polynya [n -S] - See also: polynya
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polynia
Literary usage of Polynia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Threshold of the Unknown Region by Clements Robert Markham (1873)
"polynia of the Russians currents, and spread far and wide over the Arctic shores.
On the breaking up of the ice their waters contribute to drive the floes ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"It will be thus seen that I do not take the polynia found by Hedenström, ...
So long ago as 1852, Petermann expressed the opinion that this polynia was an ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The French expedition having then, according to Captain Gustave Lambert, reached
the Siberian polynia at the very point where ..."
4. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1921)
"I walked first to the nearest of McClintock's "polynia Islands." He has not told
us why he named them so. Of itself the name is a monument to one of the ..."
5. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1921)
"I walked first to the nearest of McClintock's "polynia Islands." He has not told
us why he named them so. Of itself the name is a monument to one of the ..."
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